In her Introduction to The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman, Caroline Robbins wrote that the Commonwealthmen were "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British Isles, who kept alive, during an age of extraordinary ...
... Studies in the Transmission , Development , and Circum- stance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies ... Circumstance of English Liberal ... Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman by ...
... English thinkers , important scholars claim , had embraced the ancient and distinguished tradition of thought that ... Eighteenth - Century Commonwealthman : Studies in the Transmission , Development and Circumstance of English Liberal ...
... Charles Townshend, and Lord North.63 The content of the American protest was in part home grown, but it can also be interpreted as so many localized restatements of English radicalism. There were well-developed strains within British ...
... Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004 ...
... Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University ...
... 11 While the civil political theory of Harrington may have been difficult for the eighteenth century, the radical Erastian ecclesiology of the works remained both pertinent and prominent in the period. It was no accident that Harrington ...
... development. For example, the claim that in contrast with France and America, in Britain classical republicanism in the eighteenth century was on the decline and replaced by the reliance on negative liberty, in a gradual development ...
... English constitution. The debate continues,18yet it is only relatively ... eighteenth century. This book hopes to remedy this situation by tracing the use and development ... Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and ...